ASE Sprite editor

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fuzzy70

Wasn't to sure if to post this here or the off-topic section, will leave that decision to the moderators  :D

While trawling through the net I cam across the Allegro Sprite Editor (ASE) at http://www.aseprite.org/

It was recently updated in September & despite it's name it is not tied or for exclusive use with Allegro. Looking through the features it seems to be pretty capable & might be useful for some & I will be giving it a play around later.

At the moment I tend to use GIMP & Fireworks CS5 for my bitmap gfx & occasionally (this will make some people laugh) Dpaint/PPaint on my Amiga emulator. Tools for working with Sprites/Bitmaps are not as easy to find I feel as most programs tend to focus more on Photoediting or Touchup.

If anyone else uses a tool for Sprites or Bitmaps please post them here with what you feel helps with the creation process.

Thanks

Lee
"Why don't you just make ten louder and make ten be the top number and make that a little louder?"
- "These go to eleven."

This Is Spinal Tap (1984)

erico

And dosen´t that program looks pretty??

It also has a light table to knock animations, so it is game for me!
It is also open source, great, maybe I can pester people down at gp2x forum´s to make a caanoo port ::)

Only thing missing in grafx is animation support, but this one sprite editor has such a lovely interface.
Thanks for the link!

bigsofty

Yep, thanks for the link!  :good:
Cheers,

Ian.

"It is practically impossible to teach good programming style to students that have had prior exposure to BASIC.  As potential programmers, they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration."
(E. W. Dijkstra)

Sixth Sense

I use this one now and again, good for working a pixel level.


http://www.qualibyte.com/pixelformer/
Okay, It's been more than ten years now so I confess............I let the dogs out!

ampos

Woot! DPaint on the Amiga emulator! Great!

It used to be a program called "Micrografx Picture Publisher" (v8 and 10 were the best) that was very useful for pixel-paint.

Don't know if this old programs would work on Win7...
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fuzzy70

Quote from: Sixth Sense on 2011-Nov-04
I use this one now and again, good for working a pixel level.


http://www.qualibyte.com/pixelformer/

Thanks, will give it a look. I am always interested in sprite etc editors that concentrate more on pixel pushing then image processing :)

Quote from: ampos on 2011-Nov-04
Woot! DPaint on the Amiga emulator! Great!

Seriously, if someone brought Dpaint 5 out on the PC i would be in heaven  :D

Lee
"Why don't you just make ten louder and make ten be the top number and make that a little louder?"
- "These go to eleven."

This Is Spinal Tap (1984)

ampos

Do you know that DPaint was also done on windows as native?
check my web and/or my blog :D
http://diniplay.blogspot.com (devblog)
http://www.ampostata.org
http://ampostata.blogspot.com
I own PC-Win, MacBook 13", iPhone 3G/3GS/4G and iPAC-WinCE

fuzzy70

Quote from: ampos on 2011-Nov-04
Do you know that DPaint was also done on windows as native?

Yes & it was crap, not even close to the Amiga version  :(
"Why don't you just make ten louder and make ten be the top number and make that a little louder?"
- "These go to eleven."

This Is Spinal Tap (1984)

erico

brilliance was quite nice too. maybe a mix? Animation and onion skin (light table) is a required spot for me.

fuzzy70

ASE has onion skinning, although I have not had a chance to play with it fully yet.

Lee
"Why don't you just make ten louder and make ten be the top number and make that a little louder?"
- "These go to eleven."

This Is Spinal Tap (1984)

doimus

ProMotion beats them all...

It's commercial but has the full feature set. I especially like its palette sorting functions, dithering patterns, etc.
Haven't seen anything on par with it yet. It's like nuclear DPaint on steroids.

And it's all about pixels, no photo editing in there...

It's just been upgraded to 6.5 which finally added support for non-square pixels, to draw in Atari/Apple II/C64 style.

Kitty Hello

Why is no one rewriting DPaint for the PC? I mean, it's a pretty easy program, isn't it?

Ian Price

Quote from: Kitty Hello on 2011-Nov-09
Why is no one rewriting DPaint for the PC? I mean, it's a pretty easy program, isn't it?

Go on then! =D
I came. I saw. I played.

BigAnd

@Kitty:
ProMotion is DPaint on the PC, or as close as you need to get. I have used it for years although I think a lot of the "improvements" that have been made sometimes clutter the whole experience of using it.

r0ber7

Quote from: Kitty Hello on 2011-Nov-09
Why is no one rewriting DPaint for the PC? I mean, it's a pretty easy program, isn't it?

"A tribute to Deluxe Paint"

I do all my pixel work with it.  :good: